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After years of acrimony and dysfunction on the Clackamas River Water Board, voters will decide whether to recall board member Patricia Holloway as part of an effort to give the troubled agency a fresh start.

The association's executive director, Frank Stratton, later said the insurance would be renewed if the full board resigned. That led to the resignations of two more members, Kami Kehoe and Barbara Kemper, who left their positions at the end of October.

The final two, Holloway and Sterling, rebuffed calls to step down.

The Clackamas River Water Board has struggled for years. In the past decade, the board has burned through six general and interim managers and, because of recurring accusations of mismanagement, submitted to three expensive special audits and a half-dozen ethics and workplace complaints.

Holloway defends her actions by saying she wants to stay in office to expose what she calls corruption within the district and to protect ratepayers' interests. She is still involved in at least two lawsuits with Clackamas County and the water district.

"The extraordinary efforts and expense, such as this recall--over $32,000 trying to recall Commissioner Sterling and me--are targeted to keep the information I and he demand ratepayers receive about CRW expenditures and plans, hidden deep within CRW," Holloway said in her voters' pamphlet statement.